Subcontractors for various parts of rifle muskets during the Civil War. The contracted for 25,000 barrels with
O.T. Burt with deliveries beginning August 1862. These were not for the William Muir & Company contract in spite
of O. T. Burt and Dinslow & Chase being a partner in that venture. Muir's barrels were contracted by a steel
works on Staten Island, New York. A director, Mr. Andrews, testified to the Commission in connection with the
Parker, Snow, Brooke & Company contract, that he had a contract with Muir to make 30,000 barrels for them! Thus
the Staten Island barrels went up the river to Windsor Locks; the Windsor Locks barrels floated down to Trenton
across the marshes from Staten Island!
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